Wants to Go Home. Former President Kruger Asks Chancellor for Permission to Return to South Africa.
London, Nov. 29.—General Schalkberger and Messrs. Vessels and Wolmarans, former Boer delegates, sailed today for South Africa. The general is the bearer of a letter from Mr. Kruger to Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain, asking that he be allowed to return to South Africa. Messrs. Vessel and Wolmarans had been refused permits to proceed to the Transvaal colony, but they hope the prohibition will be rescinded after their arrival in Cape Colony.
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Het Volk (political party)
Het Volk (The People) was a Transvaal political party, established in May 1904 under the leadership of Louis Botha and his deputy Jan Smuts. Upon the creation of the Union of South Africa in May 1910, it merged with Afrikaner Bond, the South African Party, and the Orangia Unie, the dominant political parties of the Cape Colony and Orange River Colony (formerly the Orange Free State), creating the pan-Union South African Party.
Wikipedia →Exile and death — Paul Kruger
Kruger left the Transvaal by rail on 11 September 1900—he wept as the train crossed into Mozambique. About a month later Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands concluded a deal with Britain to extricate Kruger on a Dutch warship, HNLMS Gelderland, and convey him through non-British waters to Marseille.
Wikipedia →1907 election — Transvaal Colony
The election was held on 20 February 1907 and Het Volk won the election gathering 37 of 69 seats. It stood 43 candidates and won 34 seats outright, all the country seats were gained except Barberton, three seats in Pretoria and four on the Witwatersrand with three independents aligning themselves with the party.
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